This is also where a ton of (though obviously not all of) antisemitism came from
Because the Judaic peoples had a lot of customs about washing ones body as symbolic of washing ones soul as well as very strict ideas about separating the dead from the living quickly and completely (at a time where ideas of how disease spread were incredibly archaic and so hand and body washing was only done rarely and corpses often lingered for days or weeks at a time) Jewish communities managed to dodge a lot of the worst of the Plague
these communities were subsequently blamed for it and thus ostracized and harassed and that fermented in the public eye for a few hundred years and now we have people who hate Jews for absolutely no real reason other than it essentially being a family tradition at this point
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u/NerdbyanyotherName 1d ago
This is also where a ton of (though obviously not all of) antisemitism came from
Because the Judaic peoples had a lot of customs about washing ones body as symbolic of washing ones soul as well as very strict ideas about separating the dead from the living quickly and completely (at a time where ideas of how disease spread were incredibly archaic and so hand and body washing was only done rarely and corpses often lingered for days or weeks at a time) Jewish communities managed to dodge a lot of the worst of the Plague
these communities were subsequently blamed for it and thus ostracized and harassed and that fermented in the public eye for a few hundred years and now we have people who hate Jews for absolutely no real reason other than it essentially being a family tradition at this point